Making the news today....

[skyhuck]

18 minutes ago, Mark J said:

No one threatened anyone. I do think that it's acceptable to hit people with opposing views.  For example, If someone thought it was a good idea to shag my wife, I'd be pretty keen to violenty oppose that.

You would be happy to "thump" someone for simply "thinking" it, rather than actually doing it?

[skyhuck]

4 minutes ago, Vespasian said:

You do realize it was the Tory scum under John Major who introduced it don't you Timon?...

Yes but Tony and Gordon were the ones who did it wholesale.

[eggsarascal]

1 hour ago, WesD said:

@eggsarascal am I right in thinking you work/ed for united utilities or similar? What do you make of renationalising water?

I might be a bit biased on this one Wes.

 

I'll have a think about it and reply tomorrow when I haven't been to the pub.....

[Mark J]

5 minutes ago, skyhuck said:

You would be happy to "thump" someone for simply "thinking" it, rather than actually doing it?

Thinking it is one thing, voicing it or doing it  is a little bit different.

 

 

Edited September 25, 2017 by Mark J

[Vespasian]

1 minute ago, skyhuck said:

Yes but Tony and Gordon were the ones who did it wholesale.

Only because labour were in power at the time, don't imagine if the Tories stayed in they'd of done any different.. lets not forget, but for John Major opening pandors box the labour party would have had to borrow or tax to build new schools or hospitals at the time..

 

 

[skyhuck]

4 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Thinking it is one thing, voicing it or doing it  is a little bit different.

 

 

So "voicing" gets a smack?

[Gary Prentice]

2 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

 

Listened to his conference speech and his later interview on LBC. I thought he made Dianne Abbot sound capable!

Nationalisation - Seemed like he was making it up as he went along and any question that was too hard, like how are you going to pay the shareholders or on PFIs (predominantly introduced under Blair / Brown coincidentally!) how are you going to ever attract any future investors if they can’t trust you, or his apparent outrage at the level of household debt - whilst planning to borrow to fund his ludicrous give-away schemes...

A complete and utter head-the-ball.

 

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.

 

 

listening to this on the radio driving up to Stirling this evening, it sounded like he was frothing at the mouth and losing the plot..

 

The presenter said he was unsure whether the intention was to bail out of existing contracts or just not enter anymore. If it bail out, it can't  save money because it's a contract and payments are inflation linked over the term of the contract.

[Mark J]

3 minutes ago, skyhuck said:

So "voicing" gets a smack?

I'd imagine thst would depend upon where it was voiced.

 

[WesD]

8 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

I might be a bit biased on this one Wes.

 

I'll have a think about it and reply tomorrow when I haven't been to the pub.....

No probs it is why I asked, you have the inside view, biased or not it is probably the best view in this house for us to ask and to use as a base to start an opinion of our own on the subject.

[WesD]

40 minutes ago, stihlmadasever said:

My thoughts are the daily mail is for idiots.

No offence to you Wes but that rag gets right on my tits.Full of $hite

None taken i read a few, all apps nowadays, the content maybe skewed to suit an agenda but i though it would make a good topic for tonight as irrelevant of how it is written and by who the message is clear.

 

The one thing party conferences offer us is a chance to scrutinise.